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With Session Soon Ending, Health Care Advocates, Unions and Consumers Call For Urgent Action on Health Exchange

Jun 28, 2011 |

With Session Soon Ending, Health Care Advocates, Unions and Consumers Call For Urgent Action on Health Exchange

Governor’s Bill Would Lower Health Care Costs and Save New Yorkers Money

Albany, NY – With just two more scheduled working days in the 2011 legislative session, a large group of health care advocates, labor unions, community organizations, and concerned health care consumers gathered outside the Senate Chamber in the Capitol to urge the Legislature to pass legislation that would authorize the creation of a Health Benefit Exchange in New York State.

Governor’s Health Exchange Bill to Save New Yorkers Money

Jun 16, 2011 |

Final Legislative Priority Must Be Health Exchange Bill, Say Dozens of Advocacy, Consumer, Community Groups

Albany, NY – On Thursday, member organizations of Health Care for All New York, joined by representatives of community groups, labor unions, and others interested in protecting New York’s health care consumers will gather outside the Senate chamber in the Capitol to call on the Senate and Assembly to pass legislation that will authorize the creation of a Health Benefit Exchange in New York State.

Local Residents to Ask Congresswoman Buerkle Why She Wants to End Medicare and Give Tax Cuts to the Rich at Palmyra Town Hall

Jun 7, 2011 |

Syracuse, NY – Citizen Action of New York and 1199SEIU will mark the tenth anniversary of the day George W. Bush signed into law a $1.35 trillion tax cut (June 7, 2011) by asking tough questions of Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle (R-25th) on Medicare and taxes at a town hall meeting on Wednesday, June 8th in Palmyra. Buerkle is on record as supporting the Bush era 2001 tax cuts that primarily benefited the wealthiest Americans while leaving our country with massive debt, and ending Medicare as we know it.